I want to introduce my freeware layout design program, called SCARM, which you can download and from www.scarm.info. It has lightweight and intuitive user interface, build-in 3D Viewer and many track libraries included. SCARM is under continuous development and I am collecting any comments or ideas how it can be improved. See some screenshots below (click to enlarge):

I hope that you will like it and will found it easy to work and useful in your projects

P.S. If "Check for Updates" feature in SCARM 0.9.18 reports that there is no newer version of the program, download the installer directly from the website. The old version info file may be cached on your PC and it will need some time that cache to expire. If the website also shows v. 0.9.18, press F5 key to refresh it.

It comes with new features, new and updated libraries, some bugfixes and many improvements. The most important new feature is flex-track automatic point-to-snap-and-join function with auto shaping of the curved part. See more about this update in the SCARM Blog post SCARM v. 0.9.21 Released. There is also a short demo clip, showing how fast and easy is now the flex-track joining to the other tracks on the layout.

I hope that you will like the new version of SCARM and also hope that next one will come soon

Look also the list of SCARM Blog posts for July: www.scarm.info/blog/2013/07. There is an article about the possibility for Running SCARM on Apple Mac - it may be interesting for many of you, who want to try installing and use SCARM on Macintosh computers.